The nation’s challenged roads, bridges, rails and ports: 10 projects showing the big-ticket needs

The man running through Manhattan’s Pennsylvania Station in late 1910 hoped to buy a very special ticket — the first sold for a train ready to traverse a new tunnel beneath the Hudson River. The engineering feat linking New Jersey and New York City would instantly transform the lives of thousands of commuters.

More than a century later, the tunnel is still in use, an emblem of how the country’s critical infrastructure rests on work carried out generations ago.

Read more at the Washington Post.